Now that you've seen Batman, what's next? How about...

Unseen · July 22nd, 2008, 02:27 AM

...the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still?

For some reason, the clip is 6 mins long but only about 2 minutes are really there. After that it goes black. Don't expect anything to happen: it won't.

rhinocaster · July 22nd, 2008, 02:31 AM

Really, why even call that movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still"?

Unseen · July 22nd, 2008, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by rhinocaster

Really, why even call that movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still"?

And why not?

rhinocaster · July 22nd, 2008, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Unseen

And why not?

From everything I've seen, they didn't even try to make TDTESS.

Why not call it ET? or Star Wars? or Invasion Of The Body Snatchers?

Or better yet, just come up with a new name for your new movie.

Unseen · July 22nd, 2008, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by rhinocaster

From everything I've seen, they didn't even try to make TDTESS.

Why not call it ET? or Star Wars? or Invasion Of The Body Snatchers?

Or better yet, just come up with a new name for your new movie.

It obviously doesn't look like the retro version, but the plot is essentially the same: alien comes to earth to threaten us with annihilation if we can't learn to be peaceful.

What do you think the plot is?

rhinocaster · July 22nd, 2008, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Unseen

It obviously doesn't look like the retro version, but the plot is essentially the same: alien comes to earth to threaten us with annihilation if we can't learn to be peaceful.

What do you think the plot is?

We'll see what it is when the movie comes out. The trend of pasting a classic name on a modern movie that has little more than a nod toward the original is a pet peeve of mine.

Remake bad movies, and leave the good ones alone!

garytelecastor · July 22nd, 2008, 03:03 AM

X-Files.....X-Files....X-Files....X-Files...
I think we need to see X-Files.

Like, is that the most-excellent actor, Keanu Reeves? Dude, he is like the most bodacious actor ever to cut the curl in Hollywood. He is a real gooder actor.

Unseen · July 22nd, 2008, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by rhinocaster

We'll see what it is when the movie comes out. The trend of pasting a classic name on a modern movie that has little more than a nod toward the original is a pet peeve of mine.

Remake bad movies, and leave the good ones alone!

Well, if the alien craft had been a flying saucer, that would make it a retro movie. The last major movie I can think of with a saucer in it was a spoof of scifi movies, Mars Attacks!

Actually, plotwise, as I understand it, it stays fairly faithful to the concept of the original as I outlined in a prior post.

Gus Van Sant did a scene for scene, cut for cut, line by line reproduction of Psycho a few years ago. Certainly that isn't the sort of movie you need to be happy.

rhinocaster · July 22nd, 2008, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Unseen

Well, if the alien craft had been a flying saucer, that would make it a retro movie. The last major movie I can think of with a saucer in it was a spoof of scifi movies, Mars Attacks!

Actually, plotwise, as I understand it, it stays fairly faithful to the concept of the original as I outlined in a prior post.

Gus Van Sant did a scene for scene, cut for cut, line by line reproduction of Psycho a few years ago. Certainly that isn't the sort of movie you need to be happy.

I can say that I'm not a fan at all of updating great movies. I can't even begin to understand the point of the Psycho remake. I watched it, and it really is amazing how it doesn't work unless you have Hitchcock on the set.

From what I've seen in the promos, this new version of TDTESS looks like another movie that wants the free ride of snapping up the basic plot of a classic movie along with its name and then riding roughshod over the things that made sense in the original film.

It's interesting to read why Michael Renny was chosen for the lead in the original film. He was not familiar to audiences and the filmmakers felt that a person from another planet should be a stranger to moviegoers. Not a bad concept.

Keanu Reeves? The only thing I'm going to be sure of at the end of the movie is that aliens can't act!

ramblinmike · July 22nd, 2008, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by garytelecastor

X-Files.....X-Files....X-Files....X-Files...
I think we need to see X-Files.

YES! I cannot wait. Finally something that isn't a remake of a movie that didn't need remaking!

So far this summer I have seen 3 AMAZING movies (WALL-E, Iron Man, and Dark Knight), one so-so (Hulk), and one AWFUL (Wanted). No way I want to further offset the good to bad ratio with Day The Earth Stood Still. The original was great. No need to go back and CGI the whole thing. Get over yourself, Hollywood, necrophilia is nothing to be proud of...

Big John · July 22nd, 2008, 04:46 AM

If the next Batman gets any 'darker' he's going to be one of the villains isn't he ?

Brian blaut · July 22nd, 2008, 05:11 AM

They can call it that, but it better have one of these:

Paul in Colorado · July 22nd, 2008, 06:20 PM

I wish they'd put the superheroes in the decade they were created. Do a Superman movie set in the '30's, Batman in the '40's, The Flash or Green Lantern in the '50's and Spiderman in the '60's. Trying to update them seems wrong to me.

garytelecastor · July 22nd, 2008, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul in Colorado

I wish they'd put the superheroes in the decade they were created. Do a Superman movie set in the '30's, Batman in the '40's, The Flash or Green Lantern in the '50's and Spiderman in the '60's. Trying to update them seems wrong to me.

Man, I am totally in support of this idea. I guess the truth is
that I never really understood why I wasn't "enthralled" with
this genre, but this is it! They need to be time appropriate!
Tanx Paul.

Guitar_Ninja · July 22nd, 2008, 06:49 PM

From what I understand there are plans in the works to "re-imagine" two of my all-time favs, The Thing and The Warriors.

Seems odd since both are more cult classics than established blockbusters.

"Warriors, come out to play-ee-ay!!!"

SINCASTER · July 22nd, 2008, 06:57 PM

Brings to mind ( mine ) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's version of Hey Jude.

SixStringSlinger · July 22nd, 2008, 07:00 PM

(nudges with elbow) Huh? Huh?

(It's not really 8:00 long, dunno why it says so. But it's the best quality picture)

fltpkr · July 22nd, 2008, 07:40 PM

Hellboy II

Blazer · July 22nd, 2008, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Big John

If the next Batman gets any 'darker' he's going to be one of the villains isn't he ?

Search in your local comic shop for a batman trilogy called "Red rain", "Blood storm" and "Crimson mist" to see exactly how dark the "Dark Knight" can be.

Blazer · July 22nd, 2008, 10:12 PM

So let's compare the first Batman movie to this new one, how do Christian Bale and Heath Ledger stand against Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson?

Probably THE classic scene of any Batman related mechandise. The fight in the cathedral.

kelnet · July 22nd, 2008, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul in Colorado

I wish they'd put the superheroes in the decade they were created. Do a Superman movie set in the '30's, Batman in the '40's, The Flash or Green Lantern in the '50's and Spiderman in the '60's. Trying to update them seems wrong to me.

Comic characters have always stayed in the present. Although Batman was created decades ago, the writers have kept him up to date and exisiting in the present. It would have been weird for comics to have stayed frozen in time. How could Captain America have reacted so powerfully to 9-11 if he was still set in the 40's?
Comic heroes are like James Bond. They change with the times and always exist in the present.

studio1087 · July 23rd, 2008, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian blaut

They can call it that, but it better have one of these:

Klaatu barada nikto

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